Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1887-11-21
LOVING GOING.
Old Notions About Love and Mar
riage Being Modified.

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1t is gratifying to observe the rapid
ity with which young women now
adays are modifying their notions re-
garding love in connection with mar
riage that have been SO generally ac-
cepted in times past. 1t has been re-
Gently discovered by a distinguished
investigator that what is known scien-
tifically s''romantic-love" is in real
ity by no means so ancient a passion
as is popularity assumed. This
peculiar form of cerebral alteration,
it appears, is a complaint Of
purely modern inventions. When
Adam won the blushing maid pro-
vided for him, it is more than likely
that his first amatory compliment
consisted in knocking his fair in
tended over the head with club.
This method Of courtship is yet in
vogue among the enlightened inhab-
itants of the Congo basin, who are ac-
customed in similar manner to de-
clare their passion for the objects Of
their choice. Among all savage
er barbarous people since the
world began wives have been
won by force or bartered for like
cattle. 1t goes without saying that
under such conditions the cultivation
OF sentiment is out of the question.
Among civilized people. too, marriage
has hitherto been, to great extent, a
matter of buying and selling. In many
European countries it is so yet. Only
within very short time have young
ladies and gentlemen became accus-
toned to entertaining these NONSENSE
cal-not to say improper-ideas re-
garding love as associated with mat
rimony.
But now, it seems, this sort of
idiocy is going out of fashion with
persons OF taste and refinement. Love-
making on sentimental basis is well
enough for vulgar folks, but all sensi-
BILE people will agree that it is out Of
place in polite society. Anyway, l
notice that the girls one meets in TIE
more exclusive circles of what the re-
porter calls "upper-tendom" are ac-
quiring severely practical theories re-
garding this interesting subject. In
conversation with women they may
profess to hold the most
romantic views of life, but
among themselves they laugh
all such "flapdoodle" to bitter scorn.
"Why," says sweet little Miss Rose
buddhist out, but more thoroughly
up to snuff than her own grandmother
Glove is we'll enough as an amuse-
ment. 1 have been in love half q
dozen times myself, and I don't know
anything that is better fun. think
it would be quite too awfully jolly
to be able to consult ones heart in
choosing ones husband. but how is it
possible to do 80 here ir Boston? The
young men here are all poor as church
mice. For years after getting through
college they find it as much as they
can do to scrape up living. By
economizing on the necessares of life
they barely manage to dress respecta-
bly, and preserve appearances other
wise. AS partners in the dance they
are charming, but from the matrimoni-
al standpoint utterly and hopelessly
impossible. might be goose enough to
choose love in cottage, if it were Of
fered me, but love in a garnet Is
scarcely inviting. My only alterna-
tive is to marry somebody for whom !
have no warmer feeling than respect,
but who has the means to provide
comfortably for my support. You
may say this is worldliness, but l call
1t common sense"
So do l.
AS for the young men, let them
work hard, and by the time they
have reached fifty or sixty they will
be in a position to marry, too.
1t was under the inspiration of this
happy thought that promising youth
of my acquaintance remarked the
other day, in the presence of several
young ladies', that he meant to remain
a bachelor until he became decrepit
with age, and then take his Pick
among the prettiest girls in town
-as old B. had done a week
or two before. The young Ia
dies aforesaid were deeply dis
pleased with this speech, for the SIM
pie reason that it implied an incon-
testable truth. Dives in Boston may
hobble on crutches, sans teeth, sans
eyes, and with one foot in the grave /;
but he has only to throw the handker-
chief and all the flower of blossoming
maidenhood hereabout will run to
catch it.-[Globe- Democrat.
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